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Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies
Founded in 1959 and incorporated into Tel Aviv University in 1966, the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies (MDC) is a non-partisan, interdisciplinary research center which was founded, in part, to bridge the gap between the Israeli intelligence apparatus and academia, and to provide research solutions to contemporary issues that the intelligence services did not have the time or capability to pursue. While it is no longer affiliated with the Directorate of Intelligence, the Moshe Dayan Center continues to play a crucial role in safeguarding Israel's future. Our leading principle is simple: in order to understand these regions, one must understand their cultures, peoples, languages, religions, and history. In these complicated times, we believe that this approach has never been more relevant, and our mission never more critical. While the region is presently fraught with uncertainty, the Moshe Dayan Center hopes to continue to guide the way for those seeking to positively impact its future.Visit Site
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September 26, 2024
From Gallipoli to Gaza: How Pan-Islamism Took Over Turkey’s Secular Education System
By: Hay Ertan Cohen Yanarocak -
August 14, 2024
Erdoğan and Asad’s Slow Rapprochement: Too Weak to Make a Deal
By: Joel Parker -
June 13, 2024
The Seesaw Relationship between Turkey and Israel
By: Selin Nasi -
April 11, 2024
Comparing Israeli-Turkish Relations: The 1990s versus post-October 7
By: Jonathan Ghariani -
February 15, 2024
Antisemitism: The “New Normal” in Turkey
By: Betsy Penso -
December 14, 2023
Turkey’s regional policy in the shadow of the Gaza War
By: Michael Sarlis -
December 14, 2023
A Road with Many Thorns: Current Challenges to the Turkish-Greek Relations
By: George Karatasios -
August 24, 2023
The Druze Protest in the Summer of 2023
By: Omri Eilat -
August 20, 2023
Azerbaijan-Türkiye Military Relations in the Shadow of the Negotiations with Armenia
By: Cavid Veliyev -
August 01, 2023
Tradition and Protest: The Druze Community in Lebanese Politics
By: Moran Levanoni -
July 03, 2023
Autonomy Curbed? Kurdish Oil Exports Hit Snags from Turkey and Baghdad
By: Joshua Krasna -
June 15, 2023
Turkey is not the US and Kılıçdaroğlu is not Obama
By: Hay Ertan Cohen Yanarocak -
April 17, 2023
Without a state, within the State: Arab citizens in Israel and the judicial protests
By: Maysoun Ershead Shehadeh -
April 17, 2023
The changes in the legal system and their effect on the regime and the Palestinian minority in Israel
By: Manal Totry Jubran -
March 14, 2023
Can Turkish Jews Act as a Bridge in Israeli-Turkish Economic Relations?
By: Onur Yılmaz -
February 15, 2023
Deciphering Erdoğan's Regional Paradigm Shifts
By: Ofra Bengio -
December 19, 2022
China’s Infrastructure Projects in the Middle East: Lessons from China’s Engagement Elsewhere
By: Dominika Urhová -
December 18, 2022
The 2023 Elections: Legitimization of the New Türkiye
By: Christos Teazis -
December 07, 2022
Russia Steps up its Campaign for Influence in Africa
By: Rina Bassist -
December 07, 2022
Summary of the 25th Knesset election results in Arab society
By: Arik Rudnitzky -
November 22, 2022
The Syrian Popular Uprising and the Decline of the Druze Political Role
By: Yusri Khaizran -
October 03, 2022
The Turkish Economy in Flames
By: Hay Ertan Cohen Yanarocak -
October 02, 2022
Syria’s Wheat Crisis
By: Jesse Weinberg -
September 04, 2022
Hizballah’s Narrative in the Service of Legitimizing Military Action
By: Shay Jovany -
August 17, 2022
Understanding political violence in Jerusalem
By: Eran Tzidkiyahu -
August 15, 2022
The Sky is the Limit: The Azerbaijan-Israel-Türkiye Trio and the Greater Middle East
By: Rusif Huseynov -
July 28, 2022
The Distinction between Anti-Semitism & Anti-Zionism in the Eyes of American Muslim Preachers
By: Elad Ben David -
July 27, 2022
Saudi Arabia’s New Nationalism: Embracing Jahiliyyah
By: Ilan Zalayat -
July 22, 2022
Fear and awe on the way to Baalbek
By: Moran Levanoni -
July 20, 2022
The Ukraine War and the Middle East: The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Poorer
By: Paul Rivlin -
June 28, 2022
A Tale of Two Normalizations: Israeli Normalization with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain – Part II
By: Joshua Krasna -
June 15, 2022
Turkey's ‘Precious Loneliness’ vs. Greece's Multilateralism
By: Hay Eytan Cohen Yanaraocak -
May 31, 2022
Mercenary Fighters in Libya and Ukraine: How Social Media Are Exposing the Russian Wagner Group
By: Biancamaria Vallortigara -
May 24, 2022
Life, Death, and Beyond: The Belief in Reincarnation and the Phenomenon of Notq in the Druze Community
By: Maha Natoor -
May 17, 2022
A Tale of Two Normalizations: Israeli Normalization with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) – Part I
By: Joshua Krasna -
May 11, 2022
First year of the coalition: The situation of the Arab parties and the balance of power between them
By: Rany Hasan -
April 26, 2022
Campaigning For Aafia: From ‘Twitter Storms” to Terrorism
By: Ariel Koch -
April 12, 2022
Türkiye and Israel: Optimism must prevail
By: Hasan Murat Mercan -
April 12, 2022
A U-Turn in Israeli-Turkish Relations: The Fall of Ikhwanism and the Rise of the Abraham Accords
By: Gökhan Çınkara -
April 06, 2022
Tunisia’s Turbulence: On the Road to Economic and Political Collapse
By: Daniel Zisenwine -
April 04, 2022
Russia invades Ukraine: The economic fall-out and consequences for energy markets
By: Paul Rivlin -
March 28, 2022
The War on Public Consciousness: Social media as a tool of influence by supporters of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood
By: Michael Barak -
March 24, 2022
Politics, War and Eastern Mediterranean Gas
By: Joshua Krasna -
March 10, 2022
Hizballah, Lebanon, and Reconciliation with the Gulf: The Impasse
By: Carl Yonker -
March 01, 2022
Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea: Those trying to curb it, and those standing in their way
By: Rina Bassist -
February 28, 2022
Solemeini’s Revenge from Cyberspace: A Blatant Escalation
By: Moshe Kwiat -
February 24, 2022
Is there anything new in Mansour Abbas’ declaration concerning the “Jewish State”?
By: Arik Rudnitzky -
February 24, 2022
“The New Way”: The Key to Understanding Ra’am’s Strategy
By: Michael Milshtein -
February 22, 2022
Zero-Sum versus Win-Win in the Middle East
By: Paul Rivlin -
February 15, 2022
What happened to the Turkish Lira?
By: Güven Sak -
February 10, 2022
The UAE Under Attack: A Foreign Policy Test
By: Moran Zaga -
January 31, 2022
A Saudi-Pakistani Reset: Business as Usual?
By: Joshua Albin Cheyaden -
January 25, 2022
Pakistani PM sparks Outrage among Afghanis at the OIC Conference
By: Giovanni Matteo Quer -
December 22, 2021
No Boundaries – The Syrian-Lebanese Drug Economy
By: Moran Levanoni -
December 15, 2021
Turkey's Nuclear Future
By: Assa Ophir -
December 13, 2021
Napoleon’s Bicentenary
By: Stephane Cohen -
November 30, 2021
Regional Solutions to Regional Challenges in the Middle East?
By: Brandon Friedman -
November 25, 2021
Celebrating Ashura in Syria
By: Jesse Weinberg -
November 01, 2021
Back in Exile: Afghan Stories of a Near Distant Past
By: Giovanni Matteo Quer -
October 28, 2021
For Israel’s Acceptance to the AU as Observer Reveals Continental Divides
By: Rina Bassist -
October 20, 2021
Jordan: With Relations with Washington and Jerusalem Back in Order, a Flurry of Diplomatic Activity
By: Joshua Krasna -
October 14, 2021
The Central Asian Perspective on Turkey: Does Family Come First?
By: Oğul Tuna -
October 07, 2021
The “Four Plus One”: The Changing Power Politics of the Middle East
By: Joshua Krasna, George Meladze -
September 30, 2021
How the Taliban Re-took Afghanistan
By: Paul Rivlin -
September 14, 2021
Hizballah’s Gain, Lebanon’s Pain
By: Joel Parker, Sarah Cahn -
August 30, 2021
The Egyptian TikTok Girls
By: Nir Boms -
August 12, 2021
Afghanistan offers an opportunity to repair Turkey-NATO relations
By: Kohei Imai -
July 25, 2021
“We Dared to Dream, And We Will Never Regret Dignity” – The Slogan of the 10th Anniversary of the Syrian Uprising
By: Ido Yahel -
July 22, 2021
For Mozambique’s government, is radical Islam exclusively a security issue?
By: Rina Bassist -
July 20, 2021
The Forgotten Crises in the Gulf: Electricity and Water in Iran and Iraq
By: Paul Rivlin -
July 14, 2021
Is the Muslim Brotherhood losing Turkey and Qatar in the light of the rapprochement with Egypt?
By: Michael Barak -
June 27, 2021
Mockery as a Tool of Palestinian Resistance on TikTok
By: Maya de Vries -
June 27, 2021
The Demonstrations on Israel’s Borders in Jordan and Lebanon during the “Guardian of the Walls” Military Operation: Grassroots Protests or Premeditated Outbursts of Rage?
By: Shay Jovany -
June 17, 2021
Iran in Syria: From Expansion to Entrenchment
By: Ido Yahel -
June 15, 2021
Turkish-Russian Relations: A Puzzle that Shakes the Middle East
By: Remi Daniel -
May 30, 2021
The UAE and Israel: Developing Relations and the Challenge Ahead
By: Paul Rivlin -
May 26, 2021
Is there a Shift in Lebanese Public Opinion toward Israel?
By: Jonathan Nizar Elkhoury -
May 11, 2021
The Death of Chad’s Warrior President: What it Means for the Region and the World
By: Eline Rosenhart -
May 10, 2021
Analysis of Arab Voting Patterns in the Elections for the 24th Knesset
By: Ziyad Abu Habla -
May 05, 2021
Morocco’s Normalization with Israel: The Party for Justice and Development (PJD)’s Reaction
By: Tiziana della Ragione -
April 25, 2021
New Media, Same Libya?
By: Biancamaria Vallortigara -
April 21, 2021
The “Non-State” State in Iraqi Political Discourse and Action
By: Ofra Bengio -
April 13, 2021
The way forward for Turkish-American relations: Partnership à la carte?
By: Selin Nasi -
April 11, 2021
Kuwait’s New Government: A Political System in Crisis?
By: Eran Segal -
March 25, 2021
Reflections of the Rohingya in the Online Jihadi Propaganda
By: Ariel Koch -
March 21, 2021
Changes in Oil Markets and New Technology: The Effects of COVID-19 and Climate Change
By: Paul Rivlin -
March 18, 2021
From a Community to a Society: Trends in Druze Voting Patterns in the Knesset Elections, 1996–2020
By: Mahmoud Shanan, Omri Eilat -
March 18, 2021
The elections for the 24th Knesset: A Turning Point in the Integration of Arabs into National Politics?
By: Elie Rekhess -
March 04, 2021
Boğaziçi University Demonstrations: Will Erdoğan be Able to Blow the Secular Bubble of Istanbul?
By: Hay Eytan, Cohen Yanarocak -
March 03, 2021
Israel and Lebanon: A Bridge Over Troubled Waters?
By: Nir Boms, Stephane Cohen -
March 01, 2021
The Challenge of Transnational Salafi-Jihadi Terrorism in Africa
By: Matan Daniel -
February 15, 2021
Turkey and Egypt: Time for Normalization? Not Quite Yet
By: Marwa Maziad -
January 25, 2021
Charlie Hebdo’s Caricatures and Macron’s Statements in the Eyes of Francophone Muslim Preachers
By: Elad Ben David -
January 21, 2021
The Impact of Covid-19 and Conflict on Middle Eastern Economies
By: Paul Rivlin -
December 27, 2020
A New Chapter in Algeria’s Tumultuous Politics
By: Daniel Zisenwine -
December 24, 2020
G20 in Riyadh: Saudi Arabia’s Global Moment
By: Adam Hoffman -
December 22, 2020
Paris, Algiers Concerned over Mali’s Transitional Regime
By: Rina Bassist -
December 07, 2020
Israel is Turkey’s Neighbor Across the Sea: Delimitation of the Maritime Jurisdiction Areas between Turkey and Israel
By: Cihat Yayci -
November 30, 2020
Israel and the UAE: Old New Friends
By: Paul Rivlin -
November 29, 2020
Education Reform in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia: Between Covid-19 and a Divided Civil Society
By: Tiziana della Ragione -
November 25, 2020
Joe Biden’s US Election Victory in the Eyes of Egyptians
By: Michael Barak -
November 02, 2020
Comments on the Electoral Strength of the Joint Arab List
By: Assaf Shapira -
October 20, 2020
An Israeli-Sudanese Rapprochement? Context, Interests, and Implications
By: Asher Lubotzky -
October 15, 2020
How the Abraham Accords affected the Turkish Foreign Policy?
By: Zoltán Egeresi -
September 30, 2020
“Gulf citizens against normalization”: Reactions to Israel’s normalization agreements with the UAE and Bahrain
By: Adam Hoffman -
September 30, 2020
Marketing Daʿwa in America Through Social Media
By: Elad Ben David -
September 16, 2020
Iran’s Battered Economy
By: Paul Rivlin -
September 07, 2020
Chevron’s Purchase of Noble Energy: Accelerating the Eastern Mediterranean’s Gas Revolution?
By: Joshua Krasna -
August 19, 2020
Security in the Shadow of Climate Change in the Sahel
By: Haim Koren Gideon Behar -
August 18, 2020
The Coronavirus in Syria
By: Ido Yahel -
August 16, 2020
A National Hero or a Symbol of Oppression? Protesting the Statue of Ferdinand de Lesseps in Port Said
By: Michael Barak -
August 13, 2020
Turkey's Giant Leap: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
By: Hay Eytan, Cohen Yanarocak -
August 03, 2020
Memory of the Nakba in the Palestinian Public Sphere
By: Michael Milshtein -
July 28, 2020
The Story of a Restaurant during the Corona Epidemic: A Period of Crisis for Businesses in the Arab Sector
By: Nidal Othman -
July 28, 2020
The “Gender Genie”: Bedouin Women between the Generations
By: Nuzha Allassad Alhuzail -
July 27, 2020
Lebanon, Iraq, and Syria: sinking together?
By: Paul Rivlin -
July 20, 2020
Anarchist Solidarity with the BLM Struggle – Echoes from the Islamic World
By: Ariel Koch -
June 30, 2020
We Have No Role But to Bear Witness
By: Itamar Rabinovich -
June 28, 2020
The Boomerang Effect: How Syria brought down Lebanon, which is bringing down Syria
By: Joel Parker -
June 15, 2020
How Erdoğan Controls Turkey’s Information Space
By: Merve Tahiroglu -
May 31, 2020
Arab Citizens are Not the Problem: How the 2020 Election Might Redefine the Israeli Political Landscape
By: Ahmad Agabaria -
May 31, 2020
The Joint List: The Achievement and the Price
By: Rana Zaher -
May 26, 2020
Coronavirus in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Certain Economic Disaster, Possible Pandemic
By: Rina Bassist -
May 25, 2020
Coronavirus, Oil and the Middle East
By: Paul Rivlin -
May 07, 2020
Turkey has not become like Italy. Was it science or luck?
By: Tülin Daloğlu -
May 01, 2020
The Coronavirus in the Middle East: State and Society in a Time of Crisis
By: Brandon Friedman, Joshua Krasna, Uzi Rabi, Michael Milshtein, Arik Rudnitzky, Liora Hendelman-Baavur, Joel D. Parker, Cohen Yanarocak, Hay Eytan, Michael Barak, Adam Hoffman -
April 27, 2020
ISIS after Baghdadi: Is Every Caliph Replaceable?
By: Adam Hoffman -
March 04, 2020
Chad and its Conflicts with Neighboring Countries
By: Germaine Guidimabaye Remadji -
February 26, 2020
Sudan’s Predicament and the Israeli Connection
By: Paul Rivlin -
February 25, 2020
Yahya Sinwar and Hamas’ Strategic Crossroad
By: Michael Milshtein -
February 12, 2020
Erdoğan’s “Mini Empire” in Libya and Syria
By: Soner Cagaptay -
January 29, 2020
Turkey, Libya and the Mediterranean Carve Up
By: Paul Rivlin -
January 22, 2020
Stormy Waters in the Eastern Mediterranean
By: Hay Eytan, Cohen Yanarocak, Shaul Chorev, Benny Spanier -
December 31, 2019
The Iranian Empire Cracks, at Home and Abroad
By: Paul Rivlin -
December 24, 2019
The “G5 Sahel” Joint Force: A Marriage of Security and Development?
By: Rina Bassist -
November 28, 2019
The Politics of Lebanon’s Economic Collapse
By: Paul Rivlin -
November 27, 2019
The Spring’s Back in their Steps: Arab Politics Following the Twenty-second Knesset Elections
By: Mohammad Darawshe -
November 27, 2019
The Druze Vote for the Twentieth, Twenty-First, and Twenty-Second Knesset Elections
By: Salim Brake -
October 31, 2019
The Middle Eastern Scramble for the Horn of Africa: Humanitarian, Agricultural and Educational Aspects
By: Irit Back -
October 30, 2019
Iraq: Oil Wealth and Multiple Crises
By: Paul Rivlin -
September 26, 2019
Iran attacks Saudi Arabia
By: Paul Rivlin -
August 21, 2019
Middle East Demographics to 2030
By: Paul Rivlin -
August 21, 2019
Between the Rational and the Emotional: Factors Influencing the Political Participation of Arab Citizens in Israel
By: Morsi Abu Mokh -
July 29, 2019
The Kushner Plan: Economics or politics, which comes first?
By: Paul Rivlin -
June 30, 2019
Ethiopia: Economic Development in a Harsh Environment: Part 2
By: Paul Rivlin -
June 24, 2019
Central African Republic: Between France and Russia
By: Eline Rosenhart -
May 30, 2019
Ethiopia: Economic Development in a Harsh Environment: Part 1
By: Paul Rivlin -
May 20, 2019
Libyan crisis reshuffles traditional alliances
By: Rina Bassist -
May 20, 2019
Arab Voting in the 21st Knesset Elections
By: Arik Rudnitzky -
May 20, 2019
To Close the Rifts, Leadership is Needed
By: Mohammad Darawshe -
May 01, 2019
To Close the Rifts, Leadership is Needed
By: Mohammad Darawshe -
May 01, 2019
Arab Voting in the 21st Knesset Elections
By: Arik Rudnitzky -
May 01, 2019
Military or Civilian Rule? The Struggle for the Future of Sudan
By: Eline Rosenhart -
May 01, 2019
Turkey's Diaspora Policy and the "DİTİB" Challenge
By: Yasar Aydın -
May 01, 2019
The Oil Market Swings: Shale and Geo-politics
By: Paul Rivlin -
April 01, 2019
Conspiracy Theory Culture in Turkey and the "Crypto-Jews": Dönmes
By: Turkay Nefes Salim -
March 28, 2019
China: Economy, Energy and the Middle East
By: Paul Rivlin -
March 21, 2019
Morocco’s pro-active diplomacy, two years after (re)joining the African Union
By: Rina Bassist -
March 14, 2019
Civil Trends in Israel’s Arab Society in Light of the "Arab Spring"
By: Yusri Khaizran -
March 14, 2019
Examining Newly-Formed Mixed Arab-Jewish Municipal Coalitions
By: Alexander Jacob Shapiro -
March 14, 2019
Ethnoreligious Mixed Marriages Among Palestinian Women and Jewish Men in Israel: Negotiating the Breaking of Barriers
By: Maha Karkabi-Sabbah -
March 01, 2019
Libyan crisis reshuffles traditional alliances
By: Rina Bassist -
March 01, 2019
The Oil Market Swings: Shale and Geo-politics
By: Paul Rivlin -
March 01, 2019
China: Economy, Energy and the Middle East
By: Paul Rivlin -
March 01, 2019
Morocco’s pro-active diplomacy, two years after (re)joining the African Union
By: Rina Bassist -
February 28, 2019
Tunisia 2019: The Success and Failures of the Arab Spring
By: Paul Rivlin -
February 28, 2019
South Sudan and Israel: A love affair in a changing region?
By: Haim Koren -
January 31, 2019
The Middle East economy in the last decade
By: Paul Rivlin -
September 01, 2018
‘On the Deck of the Titanic’: Arab Politics in Israel and the 2019 Elections
By: Itamar Radai -
October 30, 2017
The Palestinian Arabs in Israel: Reconceptualizing the Past
By: Arik Rudnitzky -
January 01, 2016
Diwaniyya Voices Podcast: Arab Christians
By: Alona Ferber, Wadi'a Abu Nasser